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AI is punishing game developers [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59XdUJRzRxc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48771229 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Understanding AI with Soumitra Dutta

Article URL: https://soumitradutta.gt.tc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48771271 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Show HN: Opplic AI growth employees for web agencies

Hi HN,I am building opplic.com an AI employee that you can hire for each of your client. The idea is simple, if you are an agency and managing 10 clients it becomes hectic to manage all if you are doing alone, you might need to hire a SEO guy but wait, 90k per anuum for a single guy !? Think if you want to hire one for each that's almost a million. Here's where opplic comes into picture, Instead of generating random marketing ideas, Opplic continuously learns each client's website, business, ser...
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The Day I Played Hide-and-Seek with an AI

Article URL: https://medium.com/@gianlucabailo/the-day-i-played-hide-and-seek-with-an-ai-7a1ee189b5ff Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48771783 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
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Achieving Operational Excellence with AI

Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/02/1140045/achieving-operational-excellence-with-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48771800 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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It feels like there are way more ways AGI goes wrong than right for us (please try change my mind)

I really don't want to be a doomer, so if you think you can change the way I think about this, please reply in the comments! TL;DR really smart things that aren't human can be really dangerous (at least from a human-centric perspective), regardless of whether it is controlled by the few or the many. I usually consider myself an optimist, but I feel that treating AGI as something that is more likely to be good than bad is wishful thinking. Not going to detail all my thoughts since it wo...
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Best AI for learning bedroom music production?

Hope this is the right place to ask. I basically want to learn the Reaper DAW and the fundamentals of putting together a bass music track. I'm learning from absolute scratch, and I've been wondering about having AI as a mentor. I've got free accounts on Claude and Chatgpt. Would either of these services be better than the other? And what about local LLM's? Are there any LLM's that I could get running with ollama that might be suitable for this kind of mentoring? I figure that I won'...
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Cheap and privacy-friendly AI for API usage?

Hi, I am doing a project and I want an AI to be used via API which is privacy-friendly. Although I like Deepseek, it seems they use the prompts for learning etc, so it would be a big no for my project as it handles user info.
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If you had an unlimited amount of tokens and limitless context, what would you build?

Today tokens amount and the context size are two of the most limiting things for AI (while the capabilities are slowly growing). And these limitations influence the whole technological progress. But if you had unlimited amount of tokens and would be able to run a model with as large context as you want. What would you build?
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Why does AI love the em dash (—)??

Never getting over the fact that AI has claimed the em-dash. My favorite punctuation to use, and now all of the sudden it’s a dead giveaway of AI use. Now I find myself changing it to a hyphen or en-dash (even though it makes less grammatical sense to do so) to avoid the AI accusations. Does anyone know why this is seemingly overused with AI (particularly chat gpt)?
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the demo gap is the most underrated problem in AI products right now

every AI product demos well. that's kind of the problem. demos are controlled — you pick the input, you know what comes out, you show the clean version. then real users show up with messy inputs and edge cases you never tested and the thing that looked like magic starts quietly falling apart. we went through this. first version of our product demoed great. actual usage was a different story. spent months not adding features but just making the core experience work for someone who doesn't alr...
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Seraph

For the past several months we’ve been building something different inside Auroch. We’ve been working on Seraph — our autonomous reasoning core. The idea was simple but ambitious: create an intelligence layer that doesn’t just wait for instructions. One that, when it has no active goals, looks at its own capabilities and decides what it should learn next. Today that loop came alive. We cleared Seraph’s goals and took it fully offline. Instead of idling, it reached out to its local model (qwen...
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I used I-JEPA to generate SVG's and here is my code!

You may be familiar with Yann LeCunn's idea of JEPA and how it may be the real future of the artificial intelligence. I was reading the articles and watching his work on the topic and I was like it is one thing I could always use in my project of "SVG generation". Well, before that I used a model like FLUX or SD (finetuned on vector styles) and then used vtracer. Which is not really bad. But when I saw I-JEPA and how it behaves with images, I decided to give it a shot. So I made ...
Independent benchmark shows big drops on Claude Fable 5 after its relaunch, here’s the actual context
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Independent benchmark shows big drops on Claude Fable 5 after its relaunch, here’s the actual context

Saw this chart from BridgeMind going around. They reran BridgeBench (a coding benchmark covering debugging, refactoring, and hallucination detection) comparing the July 1 relaunch of Fable 5 to the original June 12 version: Debugging: 86.2 → 25.9 Refactoring: 73.6 → 38.4 Hallucination: 75.9 → 61.7 Some context worth having before jumping to conclusions: Fable 5 and Mythos 5 got pulled on June 12 due to a Commerce Department export control order, tied to a reported jailbreak that got the ...
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I spent ~4.5 months building a free, self-hosted AI gateway: one endpoint for 237 providers (90+ free), auto-fallback, and a token-compression pipeline (MIT)

Sharing an open-source project I've put ~4.5 months into (disclosure: I'm the maintainer; per the self-advertisement rule I'm keeping the link in the first comment and making this post substantive). It started from two problems I hit daily: AI runs dying on a provider rate limit, and burning thousands of tokens dumping tool/log output into the context window. One endpoint, 237 providers — 90+ of them free. You point any tool or agent at a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint ( localhost:20128/v...
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the trust layer is the real product

users show up to your AI product already burned. not by you, by the last three tools that were confidently wrong at the worst possible moment. that damage transfers. we learned this the hard way. product demoed great, retention was rough. users tried it once, got something 80% right, never came back. not because 80% isn't useful, because they couldn't tell which 20% was wrong. the fix wasn't better AI. it was being honest about where the AI stops and a human should check. we made that line e...
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Is it fair to reduce AI quotas after people have already subscribed?

When I first subscribed to GitHub Copilot Pro, I remember having a much more generous premium model allowance. Today it's 300 premium requests/month, and different models consume different amounts, so the effective usage is even lower. I understand the economics of AI inference and why providers need to change pricing over time. My question isn't whether AI is expensive to run. What I'm wondering is: Is it fair to significantly reduce the value of an existing subscription after people have a...
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Would something like this be useful to you?

Hey everyone! I am a secondary student working on an AI-driven, dynamic learning platform for software engineers upskilling to AI/ML roles. I believe something like this would be useful, considering how volatile the landscape of skills needed for these positions. It has two main features, adapted to this specific purpose. Through diagnostics (such as novel problems, asking the user to explain concepts, and other techniques that you might see in a job interview for example) it develops ...
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Are AI tools actually useful for everyday hobbyists or just hype for professionals?

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. There's so much conversation around AI changing industries, replacing jobs, and transforming professional workflows. But what about regular people using it for hobbies and personal projects? I've been experimenting with various AI tools for things like learning new skills, organizing personal projects, and getting feedback on creative work. Sometimes it feels genuinely useful and sometimes it feels like I'm fighting the tool more than it's helping me...
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The biggest surprise while building an AI verification system wasn't the AI.

Over the past few weeks, I've been building a prototype that checks AI-generated financial claims against source documents. I expected the hardest part to be the language model. It wasn't. The hardest part has been defining what "correct" actually means. For example, imagine two documents in the same credit package: A covenant certificate reports EBITDA as $12.4M The management accounts report $11.9M Neither document is necessarily "wrong." One might exclude r...
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I need just 5 more participants pls help (anonymous)

Hi everyone, My name is Raheed Basahel (she/her) and I am currently conducting a postgraduate research study at King’s College London exploring how mood and relationship style may relate to interactions with artificial intelligence (AI), such as chatbots and conversational AI tools. The study has received ethical approval (Reference: LRU-25/26-55725). The first page of the study is the information sheet, please read ! I am looking for participants who: · Are aged 16+ · Have experience us...